Hi, On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > >> BTW, what's the goal of EDLIN ??? Never used it ... > > It is there for nostalgic reasons and aims to be the DOS > text editor which is translated into most languages ;-)
Presumably it's for limited automated scripting (e.g. "edlin < changes.txt") a la *nix ed. Also, on *nix, ed is used as recovery editor, usually statically linked, when everything else is borked. Though sometimes you can find vi too. Well, ed is the "standard" *nix editor. The difference is that edlin doesn't support regex. sed is the *nix "stream editor" (loosely based upon ed) and does line-by-line editing (and not in-place), hence it can edit files bigger than memory (and supports better scripting, though arcane). > But actually even the author of MS EDLIN barely used it, > so we can be happy to also have our EDIT text editor. Tim Paterson? Yeah, it was just a quick hack for him, but apparently some (MS-DOS) were slower to upgrade to full-screen than others (DR-DOS). (...and just to combine e-mails...) (Steve Nickolas): > EDLIN was dropped from MS-DOS base after 5.0, though IBM kept it a little > longer, only dropping it from 7. It's still included in 32-bit Windows (and debug and edit95 too). ;-) Yeah, with MS-DOS 5.0, EDIT/QBASIC was standard, so they didn't "need" it anymore. > It was intended to be replaced quickly but never was, probably because it > was very light and could run on anything. Writing a good text editor isn't easy, and there have been probably thousands (see http://www.texteditors.org for a list). Besides, nobody can agree what to use: VIM, GNU Emacs, etc. etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
